Pitman Training was founded in 1837 and is the largest independent training company in the UK.

We have 110 training centres across the country. Our Guildford training centre offers a range of one day, instructor-led or flexible, study at any time courses. Courses include Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint etc), typing, Sage and bookkeeping. We also offer many of our courses on a distance learning basis.

We are conveniently based in the centre of Guildford - a few minutes walk away from the railway station, bus station and town car parks.

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Designed for: Those who wish to learn manual book-keeping
Objectives: To teach manual book-keeping to cover unit 1 of the OCR Level 2 Certificate in Accounting and part of the IAB Level 2 Certificate in Book-keeping examination, as well as introduce the basics of keeping accurate accounting records to those running a small business
Course Content
Lesson One – Including: The role of the book-keeper, the difference between capital, assets and liabilities, the dual effect of transactions and the double entry system, the accounting equation, the difference between cash and credit transactions, preparing simple balance sheets, identifying transactions in ledger accounts
Lesson Two – Including: The basic principles of Value Added Tax, calculating VAT, constructing sales invoices, trade and cash discounts, posting sales invoices to the General Ledger
Lesson Three – Including: Checking purchase invoices for accuracy, credit notes, posting purchase invoices and credit notes to the General Ledger, the purpose of the Purchases Day Book, Purchase Ledger, posting an Analysed Day Book to the General Ledger and Purchase Ledger
Lesson Four – Including: purpose of an Analysed Sales Day Book, making postings to the General Ledger and Sales Ledger, understanding why Returns Day Books are used, identifying debit and credit entries, using day books confidently and accurately.

Study level: Intermediate

Duration of training: Different durations are available for this course

Designed for: Those who wish to learn this popular spreadsheet program
Pre-requisites: Familiarity with the Windows environment and basic keyboarding experience
Objectives: To teach the Excel 2013 program to an employable level and to cover part of the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) exam.

Study level: Not applicable

Duration of training: Different durations are available for this course

Objectives:
To achieve audio transcription skills to
the OCR Audio Transcription Stage I Part
2 syllabus
Course Content:
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Lesson 1: Effectively operate the transcriber, transcribe sentences, the use of the
comma, transcribe paragraphs which include initial capitals.
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Lesson 2: Transcribe sentences displayed in double line spacing, transcribe a short
report with the heading in capitals, transcribe a business memo and a report
displayed in double line spacing.

Designed for: Those who wish to learn this popular spreadsheet program
Pre-requisites: Familiarity with the Windows environment and basic keyboarding experience
Objectives: To teach the Excel 2010 program to an employable level and to cover part of the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) exam.

Study level: Not applicable

Duration of training: Different durations are available for this course